Posted by Mary Chastain ▪ Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 1:00pm6/28/2017 at 1:00pm

Social media took off late Tuesday night after video caught a
helicopter circling Venezuelan government buildings, including the
Supreme Court. Reports
indicate that the helicopter “fired 15 shots at the Interior
Ministry, where scores of people...

Posted by Mary Chastain ▪ Monday, June 5, 2017 at 2:30pm6/5/2017 at 2:30pm

Reuters
has reported that President Donald Trump’s administration has
started to think about possible sanctions against Venezuela’s
lucrative oil sector. The sanctions would include PDVSA, the
country’s state oil company.

Venezuela continues to see protests against socialist President
Nicolás Maduro, but he keeps cracking down on the opposition to
keep his power....

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers ▪ Saturday, April 29, 2017 at 1:00pm4/29/2017 at 1:00pm

The Venezuelan people have suffered under socialist dictator
Nicolas Maduro for years. The
unpopular president has effectively crippled the nation and is
starving his people, and in recent weeks, his totalitarian
government has killed at least 29 people who were protesting
against the failed president.

Posted by Mary Chastain ▪ Friday, April 21, 2017 at 7:00am4/21/2017 at 7:00am

General Motors has closed down its Venezuela plant after the
socialist country seized the plant on Wednesday. Officials
swiped the company’s “production facilities and car stock,”
which forced GM to lay off 2,700 workers.

The closure comes only a day after Venezuela erupted in more
protests that have left at least three...

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers ▪ Saturday, April 15, 2017 at 1:30pm4/15/2017 at 1:30pm

Venezuela’s socialist experiment has failed.
Spectacularly. Lack of food, basic commodities like toilet
paper, and medicine has resulted in a population that is on the
verge of starvation and increasingly committed to removing failed
president Maduro from office. The latest protests have
resulted, so far, in five protester deaths.

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers ▪ Saturday, April 1, 2017 at 3:30pm4/1/2017 at 3:30pm

In a move on Wednesday that sparked outrage and international
condemnation, the pro-Maduro Supreme Court in Venezuela annulled
the duly-elected Congress, announcing that the Court would take
over Congress’s legislative duties.

Today, the annulment was reversed, and the Venezuelan Congress
has had its powers restored.

Needless to say, the
already-starving Venezuelan people were not happy, and protests
and looting broke out across the country as news reached the
people—at least those with $100 bills—that their money had...

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers ▪ Sunday, December 11, 2016 at 4:30pm12/11/2016 at 4:30pm

In a surreal move, the failing socialist Venezuelan government
has arrested toy executives and stolen their toys . . . to give to
the poor children of the country. Unless the toys are made of
food or
toilet paper, I doubt the children will be much impressed.

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers ▪ Saturday, October 15, 2016 at 3:30pm10/15/2016 at 3:30pm

The economic crisis in Venezuela canaptly be described as a
centralized control crisis, a crisis socialist and communist states
know and for some reason insist on repeating. Over and
over. We’ve seen the reports
on shortages ranging from toilet paper to food, and rather than
risk a revolution that would topple...